How to increase the max pty's on Freebsd 7.0?

Wilkinson, Alex alex.wilkinson at dsto.defence.gov.au
Wed Apr 1 22:49:29 PDT 2009


    0n Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 10:53:06PM +0200, Ed Schouten wrote: 

    >You can increase the maximum amount of PTYs by editing a lot of source
    >files on your system. There is some good news: in -CURRENT we switched
    >to Unix98-style PTYs (/dev/pts/%u). Right now the maximum amount of PTYs
    >is limited to 1000 (0 to 999).

What are "Unix98-style PTYs" ?

 -aW

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